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Github is not just attacking random open-source projects… The mentioned repositories enable and encourage criminal behavior. And it’s quiet intentional. It’s because of piracy that we have DRM in the first place. The audacity now of pirates to wine about them not getting what they want like the entire world revolves just around them.

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drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Format-shifting and time-shifting your legally acquired and licensed media is not illegal. If the DRM is preventing someone from doing that then it is within their rights to remove the DRM. Recall that not everyone lives in a country subject to the draconian DMCA law.

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- doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Are you serious right now? You can’t actually believe ordinary people will go out of their way to visit some random Github repository just to remove the DRM for their convenience. I guarantee you that 100% of contributers and users of that repo are doing piracy.
  
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  - WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    oh you’re very confidently wrong, I very much will
    
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- ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Because that was the intended use case for this repository.
  
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  - TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Pirates breathe air, therefore oxygen is enabling copyright infringement
    
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    doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Right. Let’s legalize nukes and bio-weapons for the average Joe. I’m sure someone is going to find a legitimate use for them that doesn’t involve using them as a weapon. So it’s perfectly justified to allow them as they basically compare to oxygen now.
    
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  - helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Don’t people buy stuff on OF, more than just a sub? Is it easily available for download in a common file format or is access stuck on the website even though you bought it?
    
    I agree that straight piracy of content is bad. Piracy is primarily a service problem, TV and movie piracy was down in the mid 2010s until all the streaming services divided. Music piracy is basically gone thanks to early iTunes and even more so with today’s streaming services. OF piracy will always be a thing because people want their free porn and the parasocial relationship they don’t get on the regular free sites.
    
    If corporations refuse to just sell us the file and can randomly revoke access or change the content (like Amazon’s been doing with book), then the community will find ways to strip out the DRM and other protections just to preserve the content they bought.
    
    I don’t have a problem with github removing of projects that aim to circumvent purchasing content, but projects that simply “unlock” purchased content should be allowed to thrive.
    
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    rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Edit: I should add, if corporations can’t be bothered to respect what the word buy means, why I should I bother to provide them money? morality is a two way street, if one side is dishonest and shady, do they really have a right to whine when others steal from them?
    
    Ah, yes, remember all that tone of honesty and seriousness from companies in the 00s against bad, bad pirates, and also scorn at FOSS, like those amateur toys, we make better things? And now from time to time those “serious professional” programs from then are found to contain GPL violations. Or how Sony put a virus on music CDs.
    
    TBH, there was a time when things were better with actually buying software and music and such. And probably the surge of piracy was first.
    
    But somehow that doesn’t hurt Steam. Quoting GN - because piracy is a service problem. People generally pirate what they can’t comfortably buy. There were games I’ve never seen in stores in my childhood (no official localization, and by the time I got interested in them people selling bootleg discs in subway road crossings were coming out of fashion here). Piracy was the way I got them.
    
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  - Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Don’t forget to wipe your nose. You got a little shit there stuck there from all the corporate ass licking.
    
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HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Baseless (and also wrong) assumption that piracy is responsible for by any means significant monetary losses aside, there are other reasons for bypassing that DRM bullshit. Like, off the top of my head:

archiving – when you don’t have a local copy of a piece of content, it can be changed or deleted at any time;

ability to access stuff on a wider range of devices – I want to be able watch my favorite coomtent creator in full resolution on my phone that has only L3 and quite outdated version of widevine without installing proprietary crapp, so what;

bypassing bullshit restrictions – not sure if onlyfans in particular does that, but we have Netflix, for example, that would tell you to fuck off when you’re not watching from home be it VPN or an actually different location when traveling.
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- rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They know all that. They want you to be able to only consume content the exact they they publish it.
  
  That simplifies market analysis, removes the dilemma of supporting or not supporting some other way users want, and ideally selling the same thing a few times.
  
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  - doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    They want you to be able to only consume content the exact they they publish it.
    
    And they have every right to do so. If you like it or not. You don’t own and have not created the protected content. On what basis are you deciding it should not be DRM protected?
    
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    sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    And they have every right to do so.
    
    morally, no. cartoon mouse says, yes.
    
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    WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    On what basis are you deciding it should not be DRM protected?
    
    they have literally given 3 of such bases
    
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    WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    On what basis are you deciding it should not be DRM protected?
    
    they have literally given 3 of such bases
    
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    rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    On the basis of having bought it. If they haven’t sold it but made such an impression, then they’ve committed a crime.
    
    When you are buying a cure against all problems with miniscule text saying it’s just a metaphor, the seller is committing a crime. It’s the same here.
    
    Morally. Regardless of how courts interpret this right now. That feature that courts and practice officially do not equal morality and thus we can decide differently this time, if we can provide an explanation, is the main advantage of English legal system and those descended from it over others.
    
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- doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Also baseless assumptions.
  
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  - HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Agreed to disagree then. IMO, if a company thinks it’s OK to throw me over the dick hiding behind being afraid of shadows, deny me access to legally obtained content on my devices, walk back on previous deals, and so on, then I have no problem with getting unrestricted access to stuff they decided I don’t technically own. Fuck the fucker, simple as that.
    
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    doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    By subscribing you agree to a contract. You made the mistake of signing it. The company is doing no shitty practice since everything is black and white in the contract. You just don’t like the contract. But the consequence should be to not sign it.
    
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